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...this semester the council capped gym grants at $333 for those Houses, while the remaining Houses are eligible to receive a maximum of $1,333 for renovations to their workout space—levelling out the total gym funding for which each House is eligible to apply...
...Iron, the extraordinary documentary of Schwarzenegger's rise in the nascent bodybuilding culture of the time. He took a minor and largely derided sport and made it a world-wide sensation. And he extolled its pleasures and reveled in its vanity. He said he used to compare a good workout in the gym with an orgasm--and on Oprah! You can see frames of him smoking what looks like a big fat joint after a contest win. You can view Mapplethorpe-like photographs of him in the nude. You can see his complete ease in the bohemian subculture of Muscle...
...Their split times on the ergs came down, they pushed each other, they showed a level of toughness and determination that came not from me as a coach, but from their hearts. It happened in one workout and there was no looking back after that...
...reason cited for the poor performances is not poor team chemistry nor is it lack of talent. Rather, it is simple fatigue from an intense workout schedule the likes of which none of the swimmers has ever seen...
...cannot purge, the one that keeps coming back and getting between me and my bliss, is this: What a waste of time. I am sitting cross-legged on a purple cushion with my eyes closed in a yoga studio with 40 people, most of them attractive women in workout outfits, and it is accomplishment enough that I am not thinking about them. Or giggling. I have concentrated on the sounds outside and then on my breath and then, supposedly, just on the present reality of my physical state--a physical state concerned increasingly with the lack of blood...